I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.